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Special "Time" Issue Features Year's Most Stunning Photographs

Aired December 15, 2000 - 11:49 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: In the tradition of "Life" magazine, "Time" magazine has now published a look at the year 2000 as seen through the lenses of photographers. In fact, the special winter edition of "Time" is titled "Life, the Year in Pictures."

"Time" senior editor Robert Sullivan, joining us now from New York to guide us through a gallery of some of the amazing pictures; and there are, indeed, some great ones to look at.

Mr. Sullivan, good morning, thanks for joining us.

ROBERT SULLIVAN, "TIME" SENIOR EDITOR: Nice to be with you.

KAGAN: Is this a tribute to "Life" magazine -- the great magazine that was?

SULLIVAN: I think it's a continuation of "Life" magazine more than a tribute to the magazine. The staff of "Time" and some of us who used to be on the staff of "Life," as a matter of fact, will be putting out specials and books and periodicals in the months and years ahead, and this is the first of them.

KAGAN: Well, if this is an indication of what's to come, it is great quality and a great indication.

Let's get right to the pictures -- I see you have your glasses on, ready to peruse them with us. And we've broken up into some categories. First, of course, the big story of 2000, the political.

SULLIVAN: Here are the brothers in the middle of the night. This is right in the -- at the pinnacle of the roller coaster, on that roller-coaster ride of the night. Another Western state has just fallen for the governor and he's punching the air, and a revived Jeb Bush is still working the phones back to Florida. This is before Florida was called for the governor at 2:15 and the first of the now many concession speeches by the vice president.

KAGAN: Little did they know.

SULLIVAN: Little did they know.

KAGAN: Moving on -- let's move on to the next picture.

SULLIVAN: And this, actually -- this has never been seen before this issue. This was a shot in the elevator at the war memorial building after the vice president has called the governor a second time to tell -- the famous snippy conversation -- to tell him that he was rescinding his concession.

He's hugging his vice presidential candidate, Joe Lieberman. And he commented, there was some kind of cryptic comment at this point that it must have been that lucky tie of yours, he said to Lieberman. So there was something about the necktie that brought these guys back from the brink.

KAGAN: And as we move on to news moments, who could imagine there would be a bigger story coming out of south Florida than Elian Gonzalez? Of course, we came to find that the election would be even a bigger story. But this is an image that you knew was going to be in your end-of-year history?

SULLIVAN: Yes, that saga went on for such a long time, and it really ground-out. It's almost hard, now, to remember that that was still this year. The boat went down in November, but by January and then right into the early spring, this was the crisis that, you know, the country played out day after day.

And this moment, you know -- that this became a photograph -- that the AP photographer was in there to capture this moment is, you know, it's stunning even all these months later.

KAGAN: It's scary to see a child in such terror.

A different kind of scary: We have pictures of the crash of the Concorde. This happened while we were on the air here at MORNING NEWS; and a tragedy, indeed, for people both in Europe and here in the U.S.

SULLIVAN: As with the Elian photo, this is -- every year you get a couple of photos that become sort of touchstones for the year, and they were almost accidental -- you know, someone looking out a window.

KAGAN: This was a Japanese businessman on a different flight, I think.

SULLIVAN: Yes; and it's just, you know -- this is one of those photos where the camera pulls back. You don't see anything beyond the flame that's graphic. I mean, you don't see one human body and somehow it makes the tragedy all the more terrible and graphic to the person looking at the image.

KAGAN: Now, a much more uplifting note; we turn to sports and a woman -- Venus Williams, here. A lot of people thought she was washed up, and she came back and had a phenomenal year in tennis.

SULLIVAN: Yes, washed up at 19, right?

Yes, she's had a career year at 20, which just -- after her sister had a career year the year before. How long and how completely those two can dominate women's tennis we'll only begin to see. But she wins the British Open. She's the first black American to do that since Arthur Ashe in 1975; first black woman to do it since Althea Gibson in 1958. She wins her country's open, she wins gold medals at the Olympics; and, most engaging for, you know, the sport's public is how ebullient she was throughout, how much she obviously enjoyed it. She was able to draw us in that way.

KAGAN: She did have a good time.

I know, also in the issue, two other great athletes: Marion Jones and Cathy Freeman. Some great stories -- and refreshing to see sports stories featuring women, if I may just add that.

SULLIVAN: No, I couldn't agree with you more.

KAGAN: That little touch there.

Well, Robert Sullivan from "Time" magazine, thank you very much; thanks for sharing the stories.

There's a picture of the issue; folks, if you look on your newsstand. Even -- many more; we didn't even scratch the surface here, so pick that one up and look at the other pictures.

Robert Sullivan, thanks for joining us.

SULLIVAN: Nice to have been with you.

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